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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Cichlomorphae
Ordo: Cichliformes

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribus: Haplochromini
Genus: Pseudocrenilabrus
Species (4): P. multicolor – P. nicholsi – P. philander – P. pyrrhocaudalis
Name

Pseudocrenilabrus Fowler, 1934: 462

Type species: Pseudocrenilabrus natalensis Fowler, 1934. Type by original designation (also by monotypy).
Synonyms

Hemihaplochromis Wickler, 1963

References

Fowler, H.W. 1934: Fishes obtained by Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley chiefly in Natal and Zululand in 1929 to 1932. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 86: 405–514.
Katongo, C., Seehausen, O., Snoeks, J. 2017: A new species of Pseudocrenilabrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Mweru in the Upper Congo River System. Zootaxa, 4237 (1): 181–190. Abstract and literature cited
Wickler, W. 1963: Zur Klassifikation der Cichlidae, am Beispiel der Gattungen Tropheus, Petrochromis, Haplochromis und Hemihaplochromis n. gen. (Pisces, Perciformes). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 44 (2): 83–96.
Seegers, L. 1996: The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique. 278: 1–407.

Links

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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Pseudocrenilabrus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Pseudocrenilabrus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names
English: Mouth-brooders

Pseudocrenilabrus is a genus of fish in the family Cichlidae, commonly known as the mouthbrooders endemic to rivers and lakes in Central and Eastern Africa.[2]
Species

There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:[2]

Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor (C. H. Schöller, 1903) (Egyptian mouth-brooder)
Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi (Pellegrin, 1928)
Pseudocrenilabrus philander (M. C. W. Weber, 1897) (Southern mouth-brooder)
Pseudocrenilabrus pyrrhocaudalis Katongo, Seehausen & Snoeks, 2017 (Fire-tailed pseudocrenilabrus )[3]

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Pseudocrenilabrus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Pseudocrenilabrus in FishBase. April 2017 version.
Katongo, C., Seehausen, O. & Snoeks, J. (2017): A new species of Pseudocrenilabrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Mweru in the Upper Congo River System. Zootaxa, 4237 (1): 181–190.

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